![]() Louis World’s Fair, which also introduced millions of Americans to new foods ranging from waffle ice cream cones and cotton candy to peanut butter and iced tea. ![]() Whatever its genesis, the burger-on-a-bun found its first wide audience at the 1904 St. Lunch wagons, fair stands and roadside restaurants in Wisconsin, Connecticut, Ohio, New York and Texas have all been put forward as possible sites of the hamburger’s birth. The hamburger seems to have made its jump from plate to bun in the last decades of the 19th century, though the site of this transformation is highly contested. New episodes premiere Sundays at 9/8c on HISTORY. WATCH: Full episodes of The Food That Built America online now. Around the same time, the first popular meat grinders for home use became widely available (Salisbury endorsed one called the American Chopper) setting the stage for an explosion of readily available ground beef. Salisbury suggested in 1867 that cooked beef patties might be just as healthy, cooks and physicians alike quickly adopted the “Salisbury Steak”. In mid-19th-century America, preparations of raw beef that had been chopped, chipped, ground or scraped were a common prescription for digestive issues. ![]() Because Hamburg was known as an exporter of high-quality beef, restaurants began offering a “Hamburg-style” chopped steak. With German people came German food: beer gardens flourished in American cities, while butchers offered a panoply of traditional meat preparations. Jump ahead to 1848, when political revolutions shook the 39 states of the German Confederation, spurring an increase in German immigration to the United States. The groundwork for the ground-beef sandwich was laid with the domestication of cattle (in Mesopotamia around 10,000 years ago), and with the growth of Hamburg, Germany, as an independent trading city in the 12th century, where beef delicacies were popular. READ MORE: Why Do Humans Eat Meat? Ground Beef Comes to America Although the humble beef-patty-on-a-bun is technically not much more than 100 years old, it's part of a far greater lineage, linking American businessmen, World War II soldiers, German political refugees, medieval traders and Neolithic farmers. ![]() The hamburger is one of the world’s most popular foods, with nearly 50 billion served up annually in the United States alone. ![]()
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